Leonard Malik | |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1908 |
Birth Place: | Kattowitz, German Empire |
Death Place: | Mysłowice, Poland |
Height: | 1.75 m[1] |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1923–1929 |
Clubs1: | Pogoń Katowice |
Years2: | 1929–1933 |
Years3: | 1934–1938 |
Clubs3: | Proch Pionki |
Nationalyears1: | 1930 |
Nationalteam1: | Poland |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
Manageryears1: | 1934–1938 |
Managerclubs1: | Proch Pionki (player-manager) |
Leonard Malik (25 October 1908 - 10 October 1945) was a Polish footballer who played as a forward.[2] He earned one cap for the Poland national team in 1930.[3]
Malik's cousin Richard was also a footballer, who played for Germany.[4]
Malik, who briefly served in the Polish Army in 1929, was an ethnic German of socialist views which caused him to be jailed at Bereza Kartuska Prison in 1938-39 as an opponent of the interwar Polish government. During the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War, Malik ran a casino for Wehrmacht personnel in Pionki. Accused of being a Gestapo informant, he was arrested by the Polish People's Republic and died in a forced labour camp on 10 October 1945.